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NEW DELHI: Over 670 large dams across the country fall under high-intensity seismic zones, the government today said. Responding to a question in Lok Sabha on whether various, hydro-power projects, dams and atomic projects have been set up in the high-intensity zone, Jitendra Singh , Minister of State for Earth Science replied in the affirmative. He said seismic zoning map of India has been prepared by Bureau of Indian Standard which shows four seismic zones II, III, IV and V, with last two ones being the most vulnerable.

NEW DELHI: With Kudankulam unit 2 likely to become operational in this financial year, the government has allocated Rs 10,446 crore to the Department of Atomic Energy for power generation and research. For power generation, Rs 1709 crore has been allocated to the department. This includes Rs 30 crore for India's first Prototype Bast Breeder reactor at Kalpakkam at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR). The government also intends to invest Rs 203 crore and Rs 440 crore in NPCIL and Bhartiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Ltd ( BHAVINI )

HYDERABAD: The joint venture company between NTPC and NPCIL, Anushakti Vidhyut Nigam , is facing legal issues, as under the law only government or its agencies can undertake activities in the atomic field, a senior government official said here today. CBS Venkataramana, Additional Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy , also said the government's ambitious target of creating 20,000 mw nuclear power may not be achievable under the current conditions. "There is a small legal problem (for the tie-up between NTPC and Nuclear Power Corporation of India)

CHENNAI: Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) today dismissed reports about blast or steam pipe leak at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant , saying there was only "an incident of hot water spillage" in which six persons were injured. "There was no accident like steam pipe break or blast happened at KKNPP today as has been reported by some sections of the Press and Media," an NPCIL statement said. "While carrying out maintenance work on a valve in Turbine Building of Unit 1, at 1210 hours, there was an incident of hot water spillage from the valve in which three departmental personnel and three contractor personnel sustained injuries," KKNPP Site Director R S Sundar said.

VADODARA: Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has been conducting programmes to generate awareness about the various positive aspects of the nuclear energy , a senior official of the corporation said here. "Nuclear energy is very safe and it is the future of the country. There should not be any doubts in the use of nuclear power for the development of the country," NPCIL Outstanding Scientist and Executive Director (Procurement) O P Arora told PTI here yesterday.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today sought response from Centre and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on implementation of safety guidelines issued by it for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. A bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan asked the authorities to file report within three weeks on a petition alleging that all the safety and security measures were not put in place before commissioning of the plant. It passed the order on the plea of anti-nuclear activist G Sundarrajan , who had moved the apex court against the commissioning of the plant.

NEW DELHI: A key environmental panel has recommended clearance for the proposed Rs 23,502-crore nuclear power plant in Fatehabad district of Haryana. Environment Minister Veerappa Moily , who took charge last week, will now have to take the final decision on whether to permit the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to go ahead with setting up a 2800 MW nuclear power plant some 200 km away from Delhi. The Expert Appraisal Committee on Environmental Appraisal of Nuclear Power Projects, which cleared the NPCIL proposal for setting up a nuclear power park, known as Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojna (4x700 MWe)

NEW DELHI: With suppliers raising concerns over certain aspects of the Nuclear Liability Act , the Department of Atomic Energy has decided to look into these worries to weed out "unnecessary liability". The DAE has formed two committees to find out a middle path on the controversial issue keeping in view the concerns of foreign companies and Indian Atomic Industrial Forum (IAIF), of which NPCIL and companies that manufacture components for nuclear power plants are a part.

MOSCOW: Legal hitches appear to have cropped up in the plans to set up two new reactors in the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) and a commercial agreement on it is unlikely to be signed at the Annual Summit between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin here tomorrow. Government sources said all issues except one on the liability clause is yet to be resolved and lawyers on both sides are working on it. "In any case it (agreement)

WASHINGTON: Five years after India and the US signed a landmark civil nuclear deal, the two countries have clinched the first commercial agreement on civilian nuclear power cooperation that was stalled over India's nuclear liability law. President Barack Obama announced the agreement yesterday after his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House Oval Office. "We've made enormous progress on the issue of civilian nuclear power, and in fact, have been able to achieve just in the last few days an agreement on the first commercial agreement between a US company and India on civilian nuclear power," Obama said.